Angry junior and senior staff of the Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin, Edo state, have called President Muhammadu Buhari to come to their urgent rescue following alleged high handedness by management of the hospital. 

 

They accused hospital authority of alleged harassment, intimidation, illegal suspensions, termination of appointment, witch-hunt and sundry acts against them by the Dr Sunny Olotu management. 

 

It was learnt that the managing director 

 

Dr. Olotu was recently invited by the police to respond to questions on issues over a petitions written by some aggrieved members of staff.

 

The Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Efe Stewart yesterday denied the allegations. Efe stated that some workers of the health institution have had different cases against them since 2004 and 2014, pointing out that those affected were brought before a panel constituted by the hospital board and appropriate sanctions were meted to them.

 

He explained that the managing director has no hands in the alleged witch-hunt and that peace has continued to prevail within the hospital. 

 

On the invitation sent to his boss by the police, he said nobody is above the law and that “petitions were written and we have responded accordingly”. 

 

 

Among the affected staff included Dr Charles Ikeji, a Consultant Special Grade 1-GL 17, Pharm (Barr) P. O. Esan, Diretor of Pharmaceutical Services GL 17 said to have died within the period of the alleged harassment, Dr Ambrose Lawani, Consultant Special Grade II-GL 16, Ms O. U. Morgan, Assistant Director GL 15, Pharm K. O. Oriakhi, Principal Pharmacist GL 13, Mrs Oluwatoyin Olatoye seun, Occupational Therapist GL 10, Mr T. O. Osifo, Senior Executive Officer, Accounts GL 9, Mr O. J. Ugiagbe-Ogbeide , Admin Officer GDi GL 9, Mr E. O. Ohenhen, Chief Data Processing Officer GL 8, Mr Osatohnamwen Nosa Chief Clerical Officer, GL 7 and Mrs B. E. Aikhorin, Clerical officer GL 7.

 

The workers in their protest letter, which copies were made available to newsmen in Benin yesterday, demand that the president should prevail on the management to withdraw “phantom cases instituted in magistrate courts against members of staff by the police from Okhoro Division and AIG Zone 5”, they believed the police was compromised to institute the cases.

 

They also want the policemen involved in the “phantom cases” probed, just as they demand the president to “revisit, exhume and implement the panel report of Rabi Adamu and the numerous petitions of fraudulent acts by Dr S. O. Olotu which have been covered up” and the reinstatement of the victims of “Dr S. O. Olotu’s witch-hunt”.

 

The staff said their ordeal started when the Adamu report submitted that Olotu’s emergence as the Medical Director of the school was fraught with irregularities and he began alleged witchhunt of staff he perceived as “enemies”.

 

By: New Telegraph